Episode 18: Sam Apple

Sam Apple is an accomplished writer, author, and journalist. His work has appeared in several journals including the New York Times and the Atlantic. Today we talk with him about his most recent book “Ravenous” which has been receiving a lot of attention in the CrossFit Community.  In this episode we discuss the work of Otto Warburh a Jewish scientist who was protected by the Third Reich to study the origins of cancer, a disease that had been posing an increased threat to Nazi Germany.  Warburg’s research discovered how obesity, sugar, and metabolic disease correlated with the formation of certain types of cancer.  After the fall of Nazi Germany, these theories had been overlooked, but are now being rediscovered again.

 

You can pick-up your own copy of Ravenous wherever books are sold!